A Washington state lawyer has filed a motion seeking a new trial in a medical malpractice case, saying that biased jurors mocked his Japanese heritage during closed-door deliberations and didn’t…
Updated: Federal investigators are expected to announce today that a design defect caused the collapse of a Minneapolis bridge last summer, killing 13 and injuring more than 100 in a…
It didn’t take police in Durham, N.C., long to get their man after a resident reported his yard had been torn up when an apparent drunken driver ran off the…
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether statements previously made by a slain witness can be introduced against the man convicted of killing her.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., says a Justice Department investigation into the destruction of two CIA interrogation videotapes should be sufficient, and there is no…
The controversy over the e-mails of District Attorney Charles Rosenthal of Houston heated up yesterday with the disclosure of additional messages sent on government computers that contained racial slurs and…
When a federal magistrate sanctioned six lawyers Monday for discovery violations in their representation of Qualcomm Inc., she wrote a footnote that suggested their law…
A lawyer for a borrower being pursued by Countrywide Financial Corp. had a question: Why did a letter purportedly sent in September 2003 have an office address for him that…
Boston’s chief federal judge has written a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey criticizing the U.S. Justice Department for lax discipline of a federal prosecutor who withheld evidence and a…
A federal magistrate has referred six lawyers to the State Bar of California for possible discipline because of discovery violations in their representation of Qualcomm Inc. in a patent infringement…
Sullivan & Cromwell has filed a lawsuit against an electronic discovery firm it hired for a major case that contends the company blew deadlines and made errors in document production.
A congresswoman has released a copy of a letter she sent to the CIA in February 2003 urging against destruction of the agency’s videotapes of harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects,…
Using a test that protects journalists from disclosing sources, a New York federal judge has ruled that Amnesty International does not have to reveal the names of lawyers who complained…
The most powerful prosecutor in Texas has decided he won’t run for re-election in what appeared to be a last-minute deal with political leaders, the New…
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